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How to get a good night's sleep
You know that getting eight hours sleep a night is good for you. But factor in a working day, a bit of training or riding, an hour or two travelling, an hour eating and changing, dashing around as the kids’ taxi service, and a couple of hours of just being and – well, you do the maths. Struggling to make it add up? The obvious way to cram more into your day is to snip off bits of the night …How Addiction Happens – Yahoo News Search Results

How will Dr. Kartik treat the complications in his love life?
A doctor is known to help patients get rid of their pains and troubles. But what happens when he himself gets trapped in the complications of love? Tonight's episode of Ishq Kills will keep you wondering.How Addiction Happens – Yahoo News Search ResultsRead more...

Opioid painkillers can kill patients too
That figure doesn't include the number of people who will become addicted to painkillers prescribed by their physicians, bought on the black market or pilfered from a friend or family member. “We don't know who is going to be addicted until it happens …Read more on Coos Bay World

School pushes for open talk about drug use
He started using marijuana but over time the drug didn't help him calm down, so he moved to something stronger, Opana (an opioid painkiller), Barber said. "Addiction takes over the entire family," Barber said. "My son never had the chance to have a …Read more on Coastline Pilot

Dealing with drug overdose issue
John Kasich signed HB 170, enacted in response to a record high number of fatal overdoses from heroin or painkillers, in mid-March. The law allows law enforcement officers, friends or relatives of addicts, or emergency medical responders who aren't …Read more on Mansfield News JournalRead more...

Addiction services brace for falloutThe Nelson MailBut it's going to be a case of monitoring it every day and see what happens, at this stage," Rout said. Waitemata District Health Board community alcohol and drug services clinical director Dr Susanna Galea estimated there had been a 20 per cent …and more »

24 Investigates: The Second Chance Drug
McKeone wonders everyday what would have happened to Tommy if Naloxone were more readily available–if the gas station attendant, or someone nearby had the drug. She wants to … Naloxone–a drug that saves the day, but does not solve the problem.Read more on northwestohio.com

Rupert Everett's prostitution documentary, Love for Sale, seeks fantasy not …
"We aren't doing it because we love it," a British woman, working the streets to pay for her drug addiction tells him, "it's a case of survival." Does Everett think she would feel differently if "stigma" weren't a factor? On a whiteboard at an escort …Read more on New Statesman

Recovering Your Life – Success in Addiction Recovery — No one ever plans to become a drug addict or an alcoholic, yet it happens, every day, to thousands of men, women and teens. There are many reasons why people…

What happens when heroin hijacks the brain?The RecorderA longer-term consequence is dependence and the risk of addiction. Blood and heart diseases are also a risk. Long term, opioid abuse hijacks your brain's reward and pleasure circuitry, thus preventing you from functioning normally — and screws up your …

Rethinking the Genetic Theory of Inheritance — CAMH study reveals that heritability may not be limited to DNA. December 2008.

Researchers show development of new cell models that track, report clock gene …
The consequences of modern life — shift work, cell phone addiction, and travel across time zones — all disturb internal clocks. These are found in the … Disrupting the clocks is called circadian misalignment, which has been linked to metabolic …Read more on News-Medical.net

New cell models for tracking body clock gene function will help find novel meds
PHILADELPHIA — The consequences of modern life — shift work, cell phone addiction, and travel across time zones — all disturb internal clocks. These are found in … Disrupting the clocks is called circadian misalignment, which has been linked to …Read more on Science Codex